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...blossoming and energy-thirsty economies of India and China promise to lift the demand for oil to unprecedented heights. In this context, President Bush’s proposal to provide India with fuel for its civilian nuclear power plants is prudent and necessary. The president articulated the reasoning behind the plan while visiting New Delhi last week: “Increasing demand for oil from America, from India and China, relative to a supply that’s not keeping up with demand, causes our fuel prices to go up,” he said...
...have possessed it for the past year. Closing shop on the acrimony of the Summers years will keep it from coming back to once again obscure the Faculty’s more pressing concerns. The crucial issues of improving undergraduate teaching, reforming the curriculum and overhauling advising continue to demand the full attention and authority of the Faculty, as well as the confidence of the students and administration. The Faculty cannot start over on a blank slate without first wiping it clean...
...short of a Happy Meal, there would be a lot of criminals around this place," cracked one congressman, who declined to be named. A former senior Senate aide bemoaned the fact that the congressional psychiatrist appears to be "so underutilized, when there is clearly quite some pent-up demand...
...Talabani had the support of the two major Sunni parties, as well as the smaller secular alliance for his demand, but it was flatly rejected across the board by Shi'ite politicians. His subsequent attempt to force the Shi'ites' hand by calling the legislature into session this coming Sunday - which would have begun a 60-day countdown to decide on the next prime minister and his cabinet - was also blocked. In this case it was the Shi'ite politician most likely to replace Jaafari as the nominee, Vice President Adel Abdul Mahdi, who put Shi'ite unity above...
...soil - so as to prevent material being diverted for further enrichment for a bomb program - right now remains the most likely contender. There's no deal yet, because Tehran is insisting that it retain the right to continue small-scale enrichment for research purposes on its own soil, a demand flatly rejected by the West. But the fact that the parties continue to negotiate even as the gears of diplomacy slowly turn suggests that, much evidence to the contrary, both sides may well find a way out of the deadlock...